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Five IKD Customer Tips For a Functional IKEA Laundry Room

Incorporating the essentials into a functional IKEA laundry room Our customers share it all, and as certified designers, we listen! They tell us their preferences with IKEA cabinetry; how an IKEA design will enhance their lifestyle and how they intend to use a space; whether it’s for entertaining, family downtime or simply to have an area that can withstand everyday wear and tear. Basically, they tell us everything about every room in the house that we design for them. That of course, includes laundry room design. An IKEA laundry room – when done correctly – provides serious organizational opportunities for our customers. We know how important that is! We’ve compiled a [...]

Built-ins: Customizing Your Home with IKEA Cabinets

The essentials of designing with built-in cabinetry without a high-end budget No matter what room you are looking to spice up with IKEA cabinetry, the only limit is your imagination. We’ve customized unique elements into all different areas of the home, but one of our absolute favorites is designing dining room built-ins. In fact, using IKEA SEKTION cabinetry as the framework, we’ve hacked together many designs. Examples of Built-Ins Examples include building a buffet area with a hutch that looked great and made serving easy; incorporating a dining room area intended to show off heirloom fine china, and designing a large built-in with glass display doors, pullouts and drawers within drawers [...]

Remodeled IKEA kitchen provides a custom fit

Creative custom cabinetry applications will maximize space and style Sometimes, when there is limited space the possibilities are endless. So says IKD customer Nicole from Seattle, WA, who – with guidance from IKD’s design team – turned her small 118-square-foot kitchen into a fresh space full of storage options. Here’s another quick snap at the opposite side of the kitchen: “We wanted to have as much storage space as possible, but also make it feel more open and modern, and look timeless in our 1944 bungalow,” she says. To achieve this, Nicole selected IKEA’s SEKTION cabinetry framework with IKEA MAXIMERA drawers and IKEA UTRUSTA hardware combined with custom Supermatte White shaker [...]

Customers make IKEA kitchen twice as nice

Experienced DIYers explain the installation process and how to be your own contractor Ask IKD customers Maggie and Greg from Rockville, MD and they’ll tell you their IKEA kitchen is twice as nice. After all, this is the second kitchen the couple has done, with Maggie – an experienced home renovator – installing the cabinetry and acting as general contractor. “In this project we were removing a wall, installing a new window, interlacing new hardwood with existing, moving every major appliance and adding a dishwasher. It was a blank slate, which was both exciting and daunting,” Maggie explains. With that in mind, the couple had three specific design wishes for the [...]

Common IKEA customer home planner mistakes part #1 – appliance/sink location

How to avoid disastrous appliance issues in your IKEA kitchen IKD customers often complete their IKEA kitchen design using IKEA's home planner and send it to us because they're not sure it's right. They want a second set of professional eyes to review it for errors -- or how it can be improved. They don't have any kitchen design experience and it's too hard to design with IKEA's home planner. They'll be spending a substantial amount of money for the cabinets -- and they'll have to live with their design for the next 20 years -- they're worried. It makes sense to work with an IKEA kitchen design professional. We know [...]

Semihandmade has 50+ options to customize your IKEA kitchen

Talking with John McDonald, founder of custom cabinet manufacturer Semihandmade Though IKEA kitchens are known for their quality, there is a world of options for custom cabinet doors that extends far beyond the Swedish retailer’s offerings. Since 2011, Semihandmade has completed over 6000 IKEA kitchen, bathroom, closet and media projects and been named to Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US. This week I interviewed Semihandmade founder John McDonald. Semihandmade is based in Los Angeles and services both the United States and Canada. […]

See how the new walnut VOXTORP doors look in a real IKEA kitchen

Making the most out of a small kitchen using IKEA VOXTORP doors Think every small kitchen has to be white? Not so! IKD Customer Marie’s new home had a small kitchen but she flipped the script with IKEA walnut VOXTORP doors. Marie chose to open up her kitchen with a very different design decision. Can you guess? This is what her kitchen looked like when she first bought her home: And this is her kitchen with the walnut VOXTORP doors: Ta-da! When Marie emailed a photo of her new IKEA kitchen to her realtor, her realtor wrote back, “I need to come see the house. It doesn’t even look like the same [...]

Customer questions: Is it too soon to start my IKEA kitchen design with IKD?

An introduction to the IKD online design services and process “Hi there, we’re in the planning stages of a home remodel and we know we want an IKEA kitchen. The rest we’re still figuring out. Is it too early to start working with you?” We get this question pretty often, so we thought we’d settle it once and for all. […]

IKEA kitchen hack: class up a DIY desk with a custom lap drawer

Practical solutions for incorporating a custom lap drawer IKEA’s desk options are as endless as its kitchen options. You can purchase one of its ready-to-go options, or you can make use of their “table bar system.” Pick out the tabletop and legs, and you’re ready to go! Unless you want to add storage. Unfortunately IKEA doesn’t sell a separate, individual lap drawer for their mix and match desk tables. Luckily, making one yourself is pretty easy. This is particularly smart for a kitchen, because you can have the SEKTION drawer front for the lap drawer match the other kitchen cabinet doors and drawer fronts. The lap drawer is a low IKEA [...]

Semihandmade doors make this IKEA kitchen a knockout

Using custom cabinetry to create a personalized IKEA kitchen layoutAlyx and her husband’s lake home was a new build in upstate New York, so they started with a blank canvas. They hired an architect to design their open-concept home, and brought in IKD to figure out the IKEA kitchen details.In a word? Stunning. […]

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